Realtree Outdoors Emerald Ice Energy Drink Review

The Realtree Outdoor varieties just keep on coming, with the latest being Emerald Ice. It is a nebulous flavor indication, a frustrating theme for the brand; how do I, average Joe the energy drink drinker, know what "Emerald Ice" will taste like? Do I simply make the plunge and fork over a few bucks? On a side note, the back of the can continues the line's tradition of having ridiculous statements, this time it reads "I like cold wind in my face." I am sorry, Realtree, but I prefer decent looking drinks.

Lemon lime is the proposed flavor, and it is a surprisingly competent attempt upon first sip, though far from entirely successful. High fructose corn syrup does the sweetening, but this soda-inspired elixir benefits from its inherent syrupiness, giving things a very honest soft drink experience. But the fifty six grams of sugar creates a languid libation that dissolves into tasting purely of sugar by the time your third or forth quaff splashes your palate. It is a shame, as the actual taste was quite charming, a citrus cocktail uniquely paced with an acidity that straddles the line between natural and candied. By the time the saccharine sixteen ounces sit at the pit of your stomach, the last few drops are gritty, grains of the empty calories give the cloying cooler brief relief from the muculent mouthfeel.

Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, and caffeine. The back of the can does not bother with the quantity of my namesake, unfortunate, however the kick itself is less than impressive, lasting two hours with some jitters. In the end, Realtree Outdoor Emerald Ice lives curiously on the cusp of being decent, but a myriad of mistakes drag the overall product down a few pegs.

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Realtree Outdoor Hydration Country Punch Energy Drink Review

This five-calorie potation is not too hard on the eyes. I mean, sure, its corporate "outdoors" look is forced, but that is okay, I have learned to stop caring. What do I still care about then? For starters, three fonts is too much; perhaps your designers should stop hunting and start working. And I have met plenty of "outdoorsy" people, and I have never seen one of them write in cursive.

Every sip lacks the potent saccharinity the fruity cocktail demands; sucralose works alone here, but this is why it never should. The effervescent famine helps the weight of each imbibe, the sham sugar having none of the heft of its caloric cousin, and its crawling density almost pacifies the sugar's melancholic absence. But the poverty of carbonation is less of a virtue than anticipated for this Realtree attempt, no matter the wonders it does for the dull taste. The experience needs desperately some levity, something to freshen up the adamant lugubriosity, and the bubbly deficiency only throws thirty pound weights on an already slow turtle. Flavors are scarce, the guava, pineapple, cherry, and lime, you know, the usual suspects, are crushed and muddled into a deplorably one-dimension cocktail. There is zero depth, no jazzy kick, playful nuance, or even obligatory acidity- just a flat taste of fruit punch by someone who probably never tasted fruit punch... or even punched a fruit.

Each can contains: taurine, B vitamins, and caffeine. The buzz at least does its job, kicking for roughly an hour and a half or so. In the end, Realtree Outdoor Hydration Country Punch is not only loquacious; it is laborious.

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Realtree Outdoors Hydration Pink Lemonade Energy Drink Review

This dull pink can is one of the better in the line since the redesign that shucked the unique twist-off top for a conventional pull-tab. But one cannot help but wonder if this is simply a repackaging of their previous Pink Lemonade, though with all the misfires of that drink I surely hope they modified the flavor. But instead of reading "not for city girls," this new design reads "I love country girls;" finally, something I can agree with on one of these imbecilic outdoor beverages.

There is slightly less sugar than the previous variety, though just two grams, but being all high fructose corn syrup the reduction is welcome (sucralose is on backup). The saccharinity is strong but never overwhelming, and although its syrupy mouthfeel leaves much to be desired, its slight thickening in the back of the palate give the illusion the pulpy textural nuance of home-squeezed citrus summertime favorite. Its tartness is another element to praise, a sharper acidity than most canned lemonades, a sourness almost overwhelmingly puckering. Whether or not it is any better than the brand's previous attempt is irrelevant; it still tastes good.

Each can contains: taurine, caffeine, and B vitamins. The kick is woeful, lasting two hours, though if there was a bright side, it would be the lack of a crash. In the end, Realtree Outdoors Hydration Pink Lemonade did not leave me hydrated, pining for the outdoors or on the hunt for real trees, but it did taste like pink lemonade, and for that I commend them.

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Realtree Outdoors Xtra Citrus Energy Drink Review

Albino antlers and text hurt this outdoors energy drink's appeal, inhibiting any pop the name and decals should have. Of course, after the recent discovery of the similarly marketed Mossy Oak brand, these ordinarily mundane visuals have far more verve to them.

The citrus taste here is syrupy and murky, a hodgepodge of lime, lemon, grapefruit and orange, only less interesting than that fruity cocktail insinuates. The produce quadrilogy is shamefully disinteresting, never inspiring to be any more than the four aforementioned flavors tossed into a single can. Fifty six grams of sugar are intense and pulverant, bogging down every imbibe with its excessively saccharine and sabulous texture. The solitude saving grace here is the tartness; it is extreme enough to cut through, or at least mostly, through the omnipresent sweetness, and provides the otherwise disenchanting vegetation with a sense of excitement and composition. Certainly, there are worse citrus drinks on the market, but there are also more available that are much, much, much better.

Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, caffeine, and 240 calories. The buzz is the best thing here, a definatively old school kick- with jitters and a crash. Overall, no matter how "outdoorsy" you may claim to be, if your hunting buddy likes this drink, don't trust him with a gun.

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Realtree Outdoor Arctic Storm Energy Drink Review

This frosty can is probably the most appealing of the line, with its snowy backdrop standing out among the other varieties. It uses the updated design debuted with Bushmaster, however its arctic background resembles the ill-fated White Buck flavor from five years ago, however its use of blue and black add jazz to the albino can.

The can cracks open stinking slightly of Red Bull, however our first sip destroys any thought of the colored cattle. Its flavor is sugar, with fifty six grams of the stuff, drowning the otherwise elementary blue raspberry. Its saccharinity is all from high fructose corn syrup and sucralose, the dense, insipid sugariness clamming and bulking every imbibe, with the latter of the sweetener system never noticed. What we can taste of the fruitiness is guileless, an innocent sapor undeserving of the egregious sweetness, although, it does slightly slacken its own exaggerated simplicity. Some faded sourness rounds out the experience, the slightest relief from the irrational measure of empty carbohydrates. Tied together by a playful effervescence, RealTree had the makings of a fun energy drink, then dumped in 240 calories worth of sugar.

The kick was fine; underwhelming and unspectacular, but the rad sugar buzz, despite ending with a crash, was an old-school thrill. Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, and caffeine. Overall, RealTree Arctic Storm is a decent looking, worse tasting, and even worse with its energy.

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Realtree Outdoor Bush Master Energy Drink Review

Back from the dead is Team Realtree, now just "Realtree," with a new Bush Master flavor. The name refers to snakes, guns, the military, superheros and supervillains, and unfortunately this drink is not based on either of the latter two. The brand's formerly resealable cans have been price-reduced to your normal pull-tab type, and its can design remains ever so hunting-inspired. At least the previously slapped on company name has been shrunk in favor of a clean logo. However, the back of the can says "I like it muddy." Please Realtree, take a shower.

Like the original Realtree reviewed five years ago, Bush Master is inspired by soda. This time cherry cola, and it is by far the best of the brand. Sure there is high fructose corn syrup, nearly sixty grams of the sweet stuff, but it lends itself beautifully to the nostalgic simplicity of the soda it parodies. The cherry has a slight acidic edge to it, a taunting tartness that feels like it has more to offer than being second fiddle to the cola. Speaking of which, it is your typical cocktail of vanilla, some slight citrus and spices, however only cinnamon stands out; the more encouraging stemmed fruit should have been granted greater opportunity to shine. It is a syrupy saccharinity, a gummy one too, and you would enjoy the experience more at a more reasonable eight or twelve ounces, but the gleaming child in me could not care. Carbonation proves the weakest link here, the first ingredient, however, it proves too restricted for the pop-approximating emprise.

Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, and caffeine. The buzz is mostly from all the sugar, a fun, jittery run that ends in a harder crash than expected after two hours. In the end, Realtree Outdoor Bush Master's more usual can is a disappointment, but its taste is the best in the line, even with all its faults. Although it is its uneven kick that truly marks the entire thing as uneven.

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Team Realtree Outdoor Pink Lemonade Energy Drink Review

"Not for City Girls" reads the back of this hick and sexist pink can, nicely resealable but its theme is far from my cup of tea. The background color does makes sense considering this is a pink lemonade, but with the attitude of marketing to women alienates men from comfortably enjoying the flavor.

The lemon tasted is fairly bland to this non carbonated elixir, but its tart pulp-like texture and refreshing sweetness give it life. There are forty two grams of the sweet stuff, in addition to sucralose, and the once thirst-quenching saccharinity coagulates with a slippery smooth mouthfeel. There is no depth, to either the sugariness or the citrus, but that works well here. It is everything we anticipate and enjoy from a pink lemonade, although it is a shame they did not exceed those expectations.

B vitamins, caffeine, and taurine are all that make up the ingredient cocktail, one that gives three hours or so of energy. In the end, Team Realtree Outdoor Pink Lemonade gets a, admittedly mild, thumbs up.

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Team Realtree White Buck Energy Drink Review

Team Realtree White Buck is my favourite of the line, at least from a visual standpoint. The snow camouflage influence is strong but thankfully not all too bad looking, with it differentiating greatly from other drinks. I must criticize the name "White Buck," however, as it really doesn't make a lot sense(but then again neither does the rest of it, at least initially). It's clearly present to signify a flavour, but unlike Blaze Orange, it's far too ambiguous to know without opening the can. Sure, it's likely to be vanilla, but it should be far more clear considering this is not the lines' only flavour.

I was right when I assumed the presence of vanilla, however here it's joined by all the workings of a second rate Red Bull clone. It's softly carbonated, which gives it an appreciated smoothness, and one of the few positives overall is how everything else involved respects this. There is a whole lot of sour apple being played with, battered around til it completely coats the mouth with it's stereotypical gumminess. It's also quite sweet, but it's the sickeningly relentless kind that dually bores and overwhelms our liking for sugariness. Expectedly the fruit isn't natural tasting, and at a time where freshly picked apples are so prevalent in my area, the artificiality is especially glaring. The aforementioned vanilla, however, isn't such an inorganic flavour, but this doesn't really matter considering its feeble strength compared to the autumn harvest. In the end, Team Realtree White Buck's taste is astonishingly pedestrian, and this is ever more unfortunate because it briefly showed promise of a rather good one.

Each can contains only caffeine, taurine, and a few B vitamins. I had a bit less than three hours of energy, with occasional jitters and no crash. Overall, Team Realtree White Buck's albino resealable can is cool, I guess, but that's about the only praise you're gonna get from me.

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Team Realtree Low Carb Energy Drink Review

Team Realtree Low Carb resembles its seemingly sugared twin immensely, and though there are certainly distinctions between the two, they're far too mild and consumers could purchase one mistaking it for the other, and this could be because camouflage all looks the same after only a quick glance. But the inherently unfocused pattern doesn't necessarily result in a cluttered can, as the eyes do easily locate what they should, and all the images of nature never really seize any attention.

Rather than basing its flavour off the original variety, Low Carb decides to take inspiration from something completely unrelated. It's predominately vanilla and though it proclaims an admiral creaminess, there are distracting notes of apple as well. But the fruit isn't very defined and isn't ever really spotlighted, and its general lack of tartness and authenticity should be identified. That isn't to say that it tastes candied, as the sweetness isn't discussed much outside the aforementioned milkiness, but its feeble saccharinity doesn't leave the fruit feeling incomplete or banal. It is, however, implied that the apple is detected simply to bring depth to the experience, as the involved vanilla isn't exactly the most complex of flavours. The interaction between the duo is playful and palatably interesting, as the two are generally involved heavily with Red Bull clones, and overall this uniqueness renders Team Realtree Low Carb as the highlight of the line.

The energy cocktail consists of taurine, caffeine, and various B vitamins. The kick lasted under three hours and was free of jitters and a crash. All in all, Team Realtree Low Carb doesn't taste like what one expected, and it can only be recommended for the novel, if not absurd, flavour.

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Team Realtree Blaze Orange Energy Drink Review

The can to Team Realtree Blaze Orange is actually quite appealing, well, as appealing as the design permits. The bright colour does its job at stealing attention, and the grayscale logo feels both foreign and entirely appropriate. But the originally cute niche nature of whole camouflage theme is now wearing thin and becoming pointless, because if there was a market for it, there would already be competition. However, at least your drink won't be shot while hunting.

Team Realtree Blaze Orange's taste is pleasurably comparable to the best in the orange soda market. The obvious fruit taste deeply flavours a smooth and non syrupy liquid, and the sweetness is high but never overwhelming. The aforementioned citrus taste is molded around a far more authentic tangerine flavour, and the latter's natural edge is a playful complement to the orange's candied character. The smaller of the two fruits tints the core of the experience, and it slowly trickles skyward and influences the outside orange, and this sort of marbleization gives good depth to a relatively simple affair. Both sour and tartness are evident during the flavour portrayal, and although the former is more trenchant, both are very cogent to the overall completeness. All in all, by not attempting to do much but prosaically please, Team Realtree Blaze Orange's flavour is stupidly enjoyable.

Blaze Orange doesn't provide an exceptional boost in energy. There were jitters, though not as many as expected from the sixty eight grams of sugar, and the kick lasted around two and a half plus hours. Each can contains: caffeine, multiple B vitamins, and taurine. In the end, if one objectively looks at Team Realtree Blaze Orange, then it should by no means get a recommendation, but by being oddly satisfying, it's getting one regardless.

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Team Realtree Outdoor Energy Drink Review

Team Realtree Outdoor appeals only with its thick resealable can, as the whole hunting camouflage pattern doesn't convey any sense of energy, plus it seems to hide the can within the populated energy drink cooler. And to my knowledge, hunting isn't about having much energy but rather ample patience, which is something that wouldn't expectantly be aided with caffeine. But perhaps the biggest optical fault is the name, which is neither exciting or blunting understandable, at least to us city boys.

Team Realtree Outdoor isn't a Red Bull clone, which was justifiably my first thought with the lack of any suggested flavour. Rather it's much inspired by ginger ale, albeit deeply influenced by various complexing notes. A bated white grape taste expands the profile of a perspicuous lemon and grapefruit, which are weaved together as one sensation consisting of two complementing flavours. Lime is whispered nether to the prior and it doesn't ever excel in becoming as crystalline as the former. The spicing to the experience is widely pleasing but sadly isn't anything more than just a simple ginger flavouring. An entirely artificial cranberry can be detected, oddly enough, veiled greatly within, and it provides some degree of depth to the aforementioned piquancy. The light coloured liquid is dry to the taste, in the sense of the distinctly flaccid saccharinity, but it the realm of ginger ale it leans more towards the golden variety, with its fairly robust taste and trenchant seasoning. The last few sips are pleasantly thick in that they're compatible with the rest of the flavour, and the overall taste is far more relishable than anticipated.

The jolt felt was as average as any and average at best. It lasted just under three hours, it was jitter free, and there was a bit of a crash following it all. Each can contains: caffeine, taurine, and several B vitamins. All in all, while Team Realtree Outdoor is far from trailblazing, it's of a much higher quality than initially expected when it was first glared upon through the clear front fridge.

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